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Beowulf 7

... “My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends, everyone calls me Nohbdy,” said Odysseus to Polyphimus (IX.366-367). This shows that Odysseus is a quick and inventive thinker. Many would not have been able to concoct such clever answer in an instant. As when Odysseus tells Telemachus “I must put all my mind to it, to see if we two by ourselves can take them on or if we should look round for help”(XVI.280-283) These words exhibit Odysseus’ intelligence for observing perilous situations. Unlike Hercules w ...

Number of words: 418 | Number of pages: 2

How Is Mystery And Suspense Cr

... analyze the stories and highlight common traits in the way in which he creates mystery and suspense. In order to fully grasp the essence of the stories, we must first know some background information about the writer and the period in which the characters involved in the stories lived. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated in 1881. He set up practice soon afterwards but unfortunately his patients were far and few between. He then turned to writing. In the duration of his stay in Edinburgh, he met Joseph Bell who ...

Number of words: 4192 | Number of pages: 16

Beloved

... love or selfish pride? The fact that Sethe's act is irrational can easily be decided upon. Does Sethe kill her baby girl because she wants to save the baby from slavery or does Sethe end her daughter's life because of a selfish refusal to reenter a life of slavery? By examining the complexities of Sethe's character it can be said that she is a woman who chooses to love her children but not herself. Sethe kills her baby because, in Sethe's mind, her children are the only good and pure part of who she is and must be protected from the cruelty a ...

Number of words: 1658 | Number of pages: 7

Persecuting The Innocent - To

... They imagine Boo as a drooling, savage, six-and-a-half foot beast with a long jagged scar on his face, yellow teeth, and bulging eyes. They suspect that he peers into people’s windows at night to stalk them and he may try to kill them. The real Boo, however, possesses a kind soul and a gentle heart. He manages to find ways to communicate in a positive and playful way with Jem, Scout, and Dill, but everyone suspects Boo of enigmatic crimes when “once the town was terrorized and…people still looked to the Radley Place, unwilling to d ...

Number of words: 628 | Number of pages: 3

Tradgedy 2

... Gatsby. These are stories written in very different times, with different social climates and societal expectations, and by authors of very different backgrounds. The one major quality these three tragedies share is that they are all based on the idea of Hubris, in self deception and perception. “There is no tragedy in the expulsion of evil: the tragedy is that this involves the waste of good.” (Bradley) The three characters are not evil people, at least not when they are initially introduced, but are caught in a whirlwind of ...

Number of words: 1820 | Number of pages: 7

A Separate Peace

... the war efforts with a “busted leg.” Gene Forrester, the main character in the book, returns to his old prep school-Devon- that he attended some fifteen years earlier. While there he remembers the incident that changed his life. In the summer of 1942, Gene and his friends stayed at their prep school for the summer session. His best friend in those days was a boy named Phineas, or Finny. During that time World War II was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying to preserve the peace in their lives, before they would be old ...

Number of words: 1155 | Number of pages: 5

Achilles

... of the Greeks, the poem spends more time on the man than on his reputation. I think the most obvious presentation of this occurs in the final book and is consistent with the character earlier in the poem. I believe the most speculation about inconsistencies in ’ character would center on his savageness towards the Trojans, especially Hektor, after the death of Patroklos, and his sensitivity towards Priam’s plea for his son’s body. It could be considered odd that is so understanding to Priam and the burial of Priam’s son, when ...

Number of words: 1002 | Number of pages: 4

The Broken Heart

... wither and die. Another image of death would be the plague. A plague is a widespread disease that causes thousands of people to die. The plague is also synonymous with suffering. Donne writes that he has "had the plague a year," by writing this Donne has been deathly ill for what he thinks is a year. Love, to Donne is something that you think about for a long time so, therefore, it seems that you have loved someone for that long but in reality it is only a short period of time. According to Donne, love is very powerful and ca ...

Number of words: 574 | Number of pages: 3

The Perfect World

... would hack, fly and ride. One common interest that people would share would be computers. Everyone would own a computer, a good computer (preferably not a Mac). Computers would be fast, faster than any computers in existence today. There would be a minimum on the amount of memory that a computer would be required to have. Twenty Gigabytes of hard drive space and 100 Megabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM) ,would be considered a small family computer. In addition to being faster than today's computers and having more memory, computers in ...

Number of words: 894 | Number of pages: 4

Song Of Solomon

... of Zora Neale Hurston is sprinkled liberally throughout the story. In addition to folklore and mythology, Song of Solomon is also rife with the cold, hard facts of reality. Did Milkman actually become airborne or was he merely a man, consistently trying to escape reality? Toni Morrison's, Song of Solomon, was inspired in part, by All God's Chillun Had Wings (Andrews et al 103). According to this folk tale, at one time all Africans could fly. Through transgressions, they lost the ability of flight. On occasion, someone would shak ...

Number of words: 2063 | Number of pages: 8

Of Mice And Men

... activities such as horseshoes. George, Lennie’s traveling buddy, is smart and fits right in with all of the employees of the ranch, adding to Lennie’s isolation. The black stable hand, Crooks, sleeps alone in a tiny room in the stable and is disliked by everyone except for Lennie. Since he is black, segregation is the ultimate reason why no one tries to like or befriend Crooks. Lennie, who, as an innocent person, has no bigotry in him, visits Crooks one night when everyone else is in town. Even thought Crooks does not show it, he ...

Number of words: 996 | Number of pages: 4

Candide 2

... was good or bad. In this way, Candide can be an example for all those who read his story. Voltaire’s Candide Optimism vs. Reality Voltaire's Candide is a novel which contains many conceptual ideas and, at the same time, is exaggerated. Voltaire offers sad events that are disguised with jokes and witticism, and the story itself presents a distinctive outlook on life. The story deals with irrational ideas as taught to Candide about being optimistic, versus reality as seen by the rest of the world. The overwhe ...

Number of words: 1571 | Number of pages: 6

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